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Conductor David Fallis is one of Canada’s leading interpreters of operatic and choral/orchestral repertoire, especially from the Baroque and Classical periods. As Music Director for Opera Atelier he has helped bring that company onto stages around the world, and for them Mr. Fallis has conducted Mozart’s The Magic Flute , Marriage of Figaro , and Don Giovanni , Monteverdi’s Orfeo and L’incoronazione di Poppea , Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas , Handel’s Acis and Galatea, La Resurrezione and Il Pastor fido , Rameau’s Pygmalion and John Blow’s Venus and Adonis , among many others.
Mr Fallis has conducted for Houston Grand Opera (Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, Orfeo ), Cleveland Opera (Handel’s Giulio Cesare , Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice ), the Singapore Festival (Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas ), Utah Opera ( Giulio Cesare ), Wolf Trap Theater in Washington D.C. (Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea ), Symphony Nova Scotia, the Windsor Symphony, Symphony New Brunswick, Festival Vancouver, the Elora Festival, and on tour in Japan and Korea conducting Mozart’s Don Giovanni .
Mr. Fallis is also the Artistic Director of the Toronto Consort, Canada’s leading chamber ensemble specializing in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. With them, he has toured extensively across Canada and in Europe, and has led the ensemble in recordings for Marquis Classics ( Praetorius Christmas Vespers ), Dorian Records ( Mariners and Milkmaids; Orlando di Lasso: Chansons and Madrigals; The Little Barley-Corne; The Way of the Pilgrim; O Lusty May ) and SRI ( Full Well She Sang: Women’s Music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance ). The Toronto Consort under Mr. Fallis played the theme music for Atom Egoyan’s award-winning film The Sweet Hereafter.
Mr. Fallis conducts the Toronto Chamber Choir, a 40-voice chamber choir, and has led them in critically-acclaimed performances of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 , Handel’s Semele , Purcell’s The Fairy Queen , and numerous choral/orchestral works by J. S. Bach, among many others.
A guest conductor of the Elmer Iseler Singers both in Toronto and on tour, he conducted the Singers in a performance of the Misa Flamenca by the great flamenco guitar master Paco Peña with Señor Peña at Massey Hall in Toronto. Mr Fallis has also served as conductor for the new music collective Continuum, and conducted a program of works by Arvo Pärt for CBC’s Two New Hours . |